• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권10호
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• pp.2041-2046
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose the feature points extraction method of hand region using vision. To do this, first, we find the HCbCr color model by using HSI and YCbCr color model. Second, we extract the hand region by using the HCbCr color model and the fuzzy color filter. Third, we extract the exact hand region by applying labeling algorithm to extracted hand region. Fourth, after finding the center of gravity of extracted hand region, we obtain the first feature points by using Canny edge, chain code, and DP method. And then, we obtain the feature points of hand region by applying the convex hull method to the extracted first feature points. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method through some experiments.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.110-114
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• 2015

This paper reports a novel object-detection technique in video sequences. The proposed algorithm consists of detection of objects in illuminated and occluded videos by using object features and a neural network technique. It consists of two functional modules: region-based object feature extraction and continuous detection of objects in video sequences with region features. This scheme is proposed as an enhancement of the Lowe's scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) object detection method. This technique solved the high computation time problem of feature generation in the SIFT method. The improvement is achieved by region-based feature classification in the objects to be detected; optimal neural network-based feature reduction is presented in order to reduce the object region feature dataset with winner pixel estimation between the video frames of the video sequence. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves better overall performance than other object detection techniques, and region-based feature detection is faster in comparison to other recent techniques.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.206-211
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• 2018

In this paper, we proposed a two-level feature vector fusion technique to improve the performance of target classification. The proposed method combines feature vectors of the early-time region and late-time region in the first-level fusion. In the second-level fusion, we combine the monostatic and bistatic features obtained in the first level. The radar cross section (RCS) of the 3D full-scale model is obtained using the electromagnetic analysis tool FEKO, and then, the feature vector of the target is extracted from it. The feature vector based on the waveform structure is used as the feature vector of the early-time region, while the resonance frequency extracted using the evolutionary programming-based CLEAN algorithm is used as the feature vector of the late-time region. The study results show that the two-level fusion method is better than the one-level fusion method.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권12호
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• pp.6009-6027
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• 2019

Support vector machine (SVM) classifiers have been widely used for object detection. These methods usually locate the object by finding the region with maximal score in an image. With bag-of-features representation, the SVM score of an image region can be written as the sum of its inside feature-weights. As a result, the searching process can be executed efficiently by using strategies such as branch-and-bound. However, the feature-weight derived by optimizing region classification cannot really reveal the category knowledge of a feature-point, which could cause bad localization. In this paper, we represent a region in an image by a collection of local feature-points and determine the object by the region with the maximum posterior probability of belonging to the object class. Based on the Bayes' theorem and Naive-Bayes assumptions, the posterior probability is reformulated as the sum of feature-scores. The feature-score is manifested in the form of the logarithm of a probability ratio. Instead of estimating the numerator and denominator probabilities separately, we readily employ the density ratio estimation techniques directly, and overcome the above limitation. Experiments on a car dataset and PASCAL VOC 2007 dataset validated the effectiveness of our method compared to the baselines. In addition, the performance can be further improved by taking advantage of the recently developed deep convolutional neural network features.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.167-171
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 의용영상의 병소부위 특징을 추출하는 알고리즘을 제시하였다. 특징 추출을 위해 위장영상을 입력하여 DCT계수 행렬을 구하였다. DCT계수 행렬은 저주파 영역으로 에너지가 집중되기 때문에 저주파 영역에서 128개의 특징 파라미터를 추출하였다. 추출된 특징 파라미터를 이용하여 질환영상과 정상영상을 비교하여 그래프로 나타내었다. 특징 파라미터는 PACS의 차등압축과 CAD를 위한 입력 파라미터로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.239-245
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• 2017

본 논문은 포털 사이트에서 서비스 되고 있는 로드뷰 영상에서 개인정보 보호를 위해 자동차 번호판 영역을 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 로드뷰 영상에서 번호판 영역은 거리에 따라 서로 다른 특징을 갖고 있으며, 특히 원거리의 번호판 영역은 저해상도 특징으로 인해 번호판 영역을 검출하는데 어려움이 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 근거리에 있는 번호판 영역은 에지 특징을 이용하고 원거리에 있는 번호판 영역은 MSER 특징을 이용하여 번호판 영역을 검출하는 기법을 제안하였다. 각각의 방법으로 검출된 영역을 번호판 후보 영역으로 선정하고, 자동차 번호판의 숫자는 구조적 특징을 갖기 때문에 이를 이용하여 최종적인 번호판 영역을 검출하였다. 실험결과, 다양한 로드뷰 영상에서 precision 75%, recall 93%, 그리고 F-Score 80%의 성능평가 결과를 얻었다.

• 인지과학
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 인간의 정보처리 과정에 관한 심리학적 실험에 바탕을 두고 인간이 사용하고 있는 것으로 생각되는 특징을 이용하여 이를 문자 인식에 적용하였다. 인간의 경우 화소단위의 정보뿐만 아니라 일정지역의 정보를 함께 처리하는 경향이 있다. 그러므로 일정지역에 대한 정보를 표시하는 영역 특징을 정의하고 정의된 이 영역 특징과 기존의 화소단위 특징들을 결합하였다. 사용한 특징으로는 영역 특징에 기반 한 초등 적 분석결과, 영역특징을 포함한 망 특징, 교차거리와 특징 그리고 기울기 특징들이다. 성능 평가 실험은 필기 한글자모, 숫자 그리고 대소영문자를 대상으로 하였으며, 인식기는 역전과 학습 방법을 이용한 신경망 인식기를 사용하였다. 각각의 인식 결과는 90.27∼93.25%, 98.00% 그리고 79.73∼85.75였다. 영역 특징과 유사한 UDLRH 특징을 대상으로 비교한 결과 전체적으로 1∼2% 정도 인식률 향상이 있었으며 인간이 판단하기에 보다 납득하기 쉬운 오 인식 성향을 보였다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.731-740
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• 2010

A region merging technique is suggested in this paper for the segmentation of high-spatial resolution imagery. It employs a region growing scheme based on the region adjacency graph (RAG). The proposed algorithm uses directional neighbor-line average feature vectors to improve the quality of segmentation. The feature vector consists of 9 components which includes an observation and 8 directional averages. Each directional average is the average of the pixel values along the neighbor line for a given neighbor line length at each direction. The merging coefficients of the segmentation process use a part of the feature components according to a given merging coefficient order. This study performed the extensive experiments using simulation data and a real high-spatial resolution data of IKONOS. The experimental results show that the new approach proposed in this study is quite effective to provide segments of high quality for the object-based analysis of high-spatial resolution images.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.327-332
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• 2002

The main problems of computational complexity in object tracking are definition of objects, segmentations and identifications in non-structured environments with erratic movements and collisions of objects. The object's information as a region that corresponds to objects without discriminating among objects are considered. This paper describes the algorithm that, automatically and efficiently, recognizes and keeps tracks of interest-regions selected by users in video or camera image sequences. The block-based feature matching method is used for the region tracking. This matching process considers only dominant feature points such as corners and curved-edges without requiring a pre-defined model of objects. Experimental results show that the proposed method provides above 96% precision for correct region matching and real-time process even when the objects undergo scaling and 3-dimen-sional movements In successive image sequences.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.5197-5218
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• 2019

Large-scale retrieval algorithm is problem for visual analyses applications, along its research track. In this paper, we propose a high-efficiency region division-based image retrieve approaches, which fuse low-level local color histogram feature and texture feature. A novel image region division is proposed to roughly mimic the location distribution of image color and deal with the color histogram failing to describe spatial information. Furthermore, for optimizing our region division retrieval method, an image descriptor combining local color histogram and Gabor texture features with reduced feature dimensions are developed. Moreover, we propose an extended Canberra distance method for images similarity measure to increase the fault-tolerant ability of the whole large-scale image retrieval. Extensive experimental results on several benchmark image retrieval databases validate the superiority of the proposed approaches over many recently proposed color-histogram-based and texture-feature-based algorithms.